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Chairmaking - Books & DVDs

This small section will grow to incorporate as much information as we can sensibly offer. Having met a few esteemed chairmakers recently we now understand a little about the fascination woodworkers have with chairs and charimaking. Let us have your suggestions and if we can add to this selection, we certainly will.

Windsor Chairmaking Ref: JMWC

This book is the first new book about the making and design of Windsor chairs for over 10 years. James Mursell has written it with a broad readership in mind. It is aimed not only at existing Windsor chairmakers but also at those who are perhaps contemplating making their first chair.

Detailed plans are included for two English and two American chairs. It is also aimed at those who are interested in both English and American Windsor chairs - dealing with them together throughout the book for the first time.

Those who wish to make chairs in the same way that they were made in the 18th century will find Chapter 7 particularly interesting, as it discusses the lessons to be learned from the toolmarks left by an English maker on a chair dating from around 1750.

Finally Chapter 8 covers design and looks at the subtle messages that can be sent out by a chair which can be interpreted in the same way as human body language.

The book had 192 pages and is filled with colour photographs and line drawings throughout.

Chapter headings;

* Introduction
* Historical background
* Materials, equipment and tools
* Processes and techniques
* Two English chairs including plans
* Two American chairs including plans
* Lessons from the past
* Body language of chairs: shape and design
* Other Windsor furniture

Price: £19.95

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The English Regional Chair Ref: BCERC
Bernard Cotton 510 pages (Hardback)

Published by ACC.

The most complete and authorative study of this piece of English furniture. Detailed survey of 1000s of chairs and 100's of makers. The author gives a lively account of the development of hundreds of chair types from all over England, and the lives of the craftsmen who made them.
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279 x 216 mm. 512 pp. 69 colour and over 1400 b&w illustrations. hb. Jacketed.

Price: £49.50

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The Shaker Chair Ref: MRTSC
Muller & Rieman 240 pages (Paperback)

In this definitive book, the authors examine in depth styles and production techiques of chairs made at 10 Shaker communities during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Historical and contemporary black and white photographs, postcards, product advertisements, line drawings etc. detail the history of the Shaker chair.

Price: £22.95

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Drawknives, Spokeshaves and Travishers - A Chairmaker's Tool Kit Brian Boggs Ref: BBDVD

Brian Boggs’ years of experience building the chairs he is famous for has given him a unique insight into design and use of drawknives, spokeshaves and travishers. He has worked with Lie-Nielsen Toolworks to develop new interpretations of these tools for today’s woodworkers.

In this DVD, Brian demonstrates how to use a shave horse effectively for shaping chair parts, including rough shaping with a drawknife, shaping and smoothing with spokeshaves and razor shaves, and hollowing a seat with a travisher. He also covers how to sharpen the unique flat and curved blades of these tools.

Price: £19.15 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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Make a Chair From a Tree (DVD) Ref: JA MACFAT
John Alexander

How to select the wood, cut it from the tree, split, shape and fashion it into a tight, elegant and useful chair. This is a two-hour DVD going at a pace the amateur can follow showing how to use only hand tools such as: the axe, saw, maul, wedge, froe, hatchet, drawknife, spokeshave, plane, chisel, gouge and scraper which are are the tools of choice. No power tools are used. Alexander shows how to split and shape the greenwood into posts, rungs and slats. Using the shrinking and swelling characteristics of wood and interlocking rungs a chair is produced that will last generations. Finishing the wood is accomplished using only a scraper and wood shavings.

Price: £19.99 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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Hickory Bark from Tree to Chair, Weaving Hickory Bark Seats (DVD) Ref: BB TC

Brian Boggs is famous for his beautifully crafted chairs, modern interpretations of traditional Appalachian styles. His favorite seat material is woven hickory bark. Harvesting hickory bark, an extraordiarily strong material, is a lost art. In the DVD, Brian shows you how he has re-invented ways to prepare bark and demonstrates weaving hickory bark seats.

48 minutes, Lie-Nielsen Toolworks Productions. DVD

Price: £19.15 (Including VAT at 17.5%)

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